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Soul of Man

There are two kinds of people. Those who love to go with the flow. Then there are those who make a stand for their convictions no matter how contrary and rough the current is. Of the latter I shall ci… more →

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Mystery

davidtrudel wrote 1 day ago: Living in the mystery, we take so much on faith Even the faithless Here in the mystery of life on th … more →

Tags: Poetry, Blank Verse, Creative Writing, Creativity, early computer games, Free Verse, Hudson's Bay Company, Inspiration, Metaphor

Call For Abstracts

theabsoluteandtheworld wrote 2 days ago: The Absolute and the World in Late German Idealism Thomson House, McGill University, Montreal 26-27 … more →

Tags: Announcements, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German Idealism, German Romanticism, Höderlin, Naturphilosophie, Novalis, Schelling

Facing Gaia: A new enquiry into Natural Religion-Bruno Latour's Gifford Lectures 2013

maestrojon wrote 6 days ago: Bruno Latour’s recent (Feb,2013)  Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh deserve to b … more →

Tags: arts & letters, Biology, Books, climate change, Ecology, Globalisation, Latour, Lectures, Philosophy

Question

davidtrudel wrote 2 weeks ago: How are you? There’s a question we ask each other a lot Answering glibly that we’re fine or good Whe … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poetry, Free Verse, Creativity, Creative Writing, Metaphor, Blank Verse, Inspiration, Truth

Matter

davidtrudel wrote 1 month ago: Fact of the matter is that matter’s naught Hard edges an illusion of suspended animation It’s not ab … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poetry, Free Verse, Natural History, Metaphor, Blank Verse, Truth, Tranquility, nature of time

The Impact of Correlationism

Adam Robbert wrote 2 months ago: Levi Bryant has posted some reflections on the deployment, evolution, and potential shortcomings of … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Object-Oriented Philosophies, Media Ecology, Process Philosophy, knowledge ecology, Isabelle Stengers, Bruno Latour, Levi Bryant, Correlationism

CFP: Translating Realism: The Nature and Emergence of Contemporary French Thought (Notre Dame) — 1 comment

Michael wrote 5 months ago: Another conference on contemporary philosophy: Translating Realism: The Nature and Emergence of Cont … more →

Tags: CFP

Call for Abstracts: The Return of Speculative Philosophy (University of Ottawa) — 1 comment

Michael wrote 6 months ago: Alex Liepins, formerly of MUN, now doing his PhD at Ottawa, sent me a CFA that should be of interest … more →

Tags: CFA, CFP, Conference

History is the Opposite of Nature

xhentric wrote 6 months ago: { } The “manic” part of bipolar disorder (manic-depression) could actually enable one to … more →

Extra-terrestrials — 1 comment

davidtrudel wrote 6 months ago: Speculative wonderers Search the skies Looking for starlight companions Precursors   Yet, perha … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poetry, Free Verse, Creativity, Blank Verse, UFOs, Extra-terrestrials, human origins

THE MOON

Marie Taylor wrote 10 months ago: “How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds; Walking … more →

Tags: Reflections, God, Moon, alien life, Outer Space

Speculation and Ecology: Some Notes for Friday's Talk (updated) — 3 comments

Adam Robbert wrote 1 year ago: Ecology is typically defined as the study of relationships between organisms and environments, and t … more →

Tags: Ecology, Philosophy, Actor-Networks and Cosmopolitics, integral ecology, Media Ecology, cosmopolitics, knowledge ecology

CrimethInc. Presents VORTEXT and TERROR INCOGNITA

mysterioz wrote 1 year ago: From CrimethInc.: In times of high activity, it’s easy to get absorbed in the quotidian, responding … more →

Tags: opportunity, Quotidian, Terror, Terror-Incognita, two new publications

An Argument for the Ecology of Knowledge: Aesthetics and Causality — 13 comments

Adam Robbert wrote 1 year ago: Michael at Archive Fire responds to my previous post HERE. Our ongoing dialogue has now moved beyond … more →

Tags: Art, Process Philosophy, Object-Oriented Ecology, Alfred North Whitehead, knowledge ecology, Ecosemiotics, enaction, biosemiotics, Jesper Hoffmeyer

Speculative Philosophy and the Specter of Religion — 5 comments

sam wrote 1 year ago: Reflecting on an upcoming conference, Thinking the Absolute, Levi Bryant posted some thought-provoki … more →

Tags: Postsecular, Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Levi Bryant, Deleuze, demystification, Correlationism

Windmill Materialism — 15 comments

Adam Robbert wrote 1 year ago: Discussing the differences between contingent and absolute withdrawal in object-oriented philosophy … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Object-Oriented Philosophies, Actor-Networks and Cosmopolitics, Graham Harman, Speculative Realism, cosmopolitics, Object-Oriented Philosophy, Withdrawal, Guerilla Metaphysics

Process and Reality: Chapter I; Sections I & II

Hapless Tiki wrote 1 year ago: In the Preface, Alfred North Whitehead (ANW, or W- hereafter, probably) tells us of Part I of Proces … more →

Tags: Process and Reality Alfred North Whitehead, Empiricism, Alfred North Whitehead, Whitehead, metaphysics

5. Practical vs. Speculative Philosophy

Nathan Haslewood wrote 1 year ago: Based on the demarcation line provided by the scientific method and falsifiability, I would now like … more →

Tags: humanism, Atheism, Faith, Worldview, human well being, Humanity, Methodology, foundational philosophy, Theoretical Foundations

Here Comes Everything Audio

Adam Robbert wrote 2 years ago: Here is the audio from Friday’s event (below). Technical issues abound, if we can sort it out … more →

Tags: Object-Oriented Philosophies, Bruno Latour, Graham Harman, Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Philosophy, participation, Jake Sherman, Anti-realism, Iain Hamilton Grant


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